Saledovil

@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s that, and why should it be destroyed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Million dollar company sounds impressive, but I don’t think that is impressive. Like twenty employees already imply a million or more in expenses annually, and require corresponding revenue to sustain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More like a terabyte.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition, we haven’t even come up with a definition of intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we’re still at least one breakthrough away from AGI, and we don’t even know how it will go from there. Could be that humans are already near the maximum of what is possible intelligence wise. As in, the smartest being possible is not that much smarter than the average human. In which case, AGI taking over the world would not be a given.

  Essentially, talking about the threat posed by ASI is like talking about the threat posed by Cthulhu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI companies are buying up all of the RAM in a futile bit to reach AGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that is a problem.

  And thanks for the compliment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if Grace is already well known, then her public key should be available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bob would have to know and trust Grace beforehand. Grace could be the IRS, for example. The idea here being to have somebody who already knows your age vouch for your age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We could just make the middle man somebody who already needs that information, e.g. the IRS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s my idea: Bob gives Alice a token, assigning her an unique random number n. Alice goes to Grace and tells her, “Somebody assigned me number n, can you verify that I’m allowed?” Grace then writes: “User n is allowed, signed Grace”. Alice then takes this letter and shows it to Bob. Bob now knows that Alice is allowed, but nothing else. Grace only knows that somebody wanted to know that Alice is allowed, not who that somebody is.

  Of note here: This system does nothing to protect against an allowed user helping a not allowed user to gain access, but I don’t think it’s possible to protect against traitorous users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same way you short anything else, you borrow it, sell it, and then buy it back once the price has dropped, and return it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Investors could be bailed out. As in you invested 10e11$, so now the government gives you that money back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific Exposure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does PI mean (first sentence of your post)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Market cap is just share price times the number of shares. Can potentially be completely divorced from how well your company is actually doing. Conversely, a drop or rise in market cap doesn’t have to mean your company is doing better or worse. If you’re selling shovels, you still have the money when the music stops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bury corpses.

  Hmm, that actually sounds like you run body disposal for organized crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a gold rush, the real money is in selling shovels. But you have to take cash upfront.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are said cool features?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just launch a ton of ball bearings into orbit, and end space flight for ever. Or at least for the forseeable future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re the ones selling shovels in this gold rush, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The premise of the meme being discussed sorta is that God exists and can be asked questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it turned out they exited, wouldn’t you want to study them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I buy this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reviews are mixed: not a great start

  More than not a great start: Only people who have bought the game are allowed to review it, so reviewers are already biased towards liking the game, because only somebody who thinks they would enjoy the game would spend money on it. It’s basically impossible to get a strong negative score by just being run of the mill awful. So “mixed” means that about 50% of people who though they would enjoy the game, didn’t, which is quite damning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The greatest German achievement since the Ottonian Dynasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for the current sale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see:

  • Vintage Story
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Rimworld
  • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
  • etc.

  Yeah, I think I’ll sit this one out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing about wishlist is, I treat it more as a “Games I found vaguely interesting at first glance” rather than a “Games I want to play” list. I assume I’m not alone in this matter. Of 214 games on my wishlist, there’s like 3 I’d play right now if they were gifted to me. 2 that I’d buy. So, assuming 1% of people who wishlisted a game will buy it on launch, that would have been 1368 sales (rounding up). Assuming the game cost 20$ at launch (it currently costs ~14$), that would be 27360$ from launch day sales. Nice payday, but not if you have to work 10 years to get it (also taxes and steam’s cut, so that number would actually be much lower)

  Thing is, just because you worked hard on something doesn’t guarantee that it will be good and/or popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you in particular⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paint a cup handle, some of the side where it is attached to the cup black, so that it looks like the cup has no handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit lost it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, Lemay is the pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If There’s No AGI?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if we’re not smart enough to build something like that?